Window-bead fastener



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` WINDOW BEAD FASTENER. 10.443,852. Patented Demo, 1890.

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J. HOOPER. WINDOW BEAD PASTENER.

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.IOSEPHUS IIOOPER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. I

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SPEQIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 443,852, dated December 30, 18S0.

Application filed April 8, 1890. Serial No. 347,014. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be 1t known that I, JOSE PHUS IIOOPER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lo uisville, Y

in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow-Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention has reference to the construction of window-frames, and relates more especially to the means whereby the sashes are held and guided in place.l Its object is to provide means whereby the sashes may be easily taken out of the frames for repairs or swung into the room, so as to be cleaned from the interior, thereby effecting a great saving of time in the cleaning of the windows, as well as avoiding all danger of the accidents so commonly resulting from one side of the sashes being accessible only from the eXterior; and it consists in the means hereinafter described and claimed for securing the sashholding strips in place, so that they may be readily detached and replaced without the use of nails or screws and without the aid of special tools, thereby permitting the sashes to be pulled down and swung into the room, where both sides may be brought within easy reach and conveniently and safely cleaned, repaired, painted, the.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a fragmentary perspective view of a windowframe, the sash-holding plates being removed, so as to expose to View the locking-plates. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional detail through the sashes, strips, and frame. Fig. 3 is a similar view, the saslles and the interior and parting strips being removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional detail lengthwise through one of the side strips, showing the fastening or locking devices. Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the side strips, and Fig. l5 is a perspective of the locking-plate.

A A are the usual top, side, and bottom pieces of the ordinary rectangular windowframe.

Bis the outer, C the inner, and D the parting, strip. The outer strip there is no need to remove, and it is nailed or screwed onto the frame in the ordinary way. It may, if preferr-ed, however, be fastened like the others.- The inner and parting strips C D, instead of being also fastened to the frame in this manner, as is generally the case, are removably secured thereto, so that they may be readily detached and taken entirely out, leaving the sides of the frame unobstructed and permitting the sashes to be removed from the interior.

E are thev sashes.

The simplest and most convenient way which I have so far devised for doing this is represented in the drawings, and is as follows: In the top, bottom, and side pieces of the' frame where the strips are to come I cut one or more (preferably two) shallow mortises a. I cover each of these mortises by a plate b, set into the rabbeted edges of the mortise, the plates hein g provided with keyhole slots and secured'in place by screws, as shown, or nails. Into the strips, at points which correspond with the mortises when the strips are in place, headed pins or screws d are seated, the heads projecting from the face of the strip a distance about equal tothe thickness of the plates b. In order to fasten the strips in place, it is only necessary to adjust them so that theheads of the screws will pass through the larger part of the key-hole slot, when by pushing the strip endwise the shank of the screw passes into the narrow part of the slot, and the head is effectuallyg confined beneath the plate, thus firmly securing the strip to its seat on the frame. It will of course be understood that a short mortise is cut in the side of the frame to receive the entering end of the strip. Thus secured,the strips cannot be loosened 0r removed except by iirst sliding them endwise till the screw- Vheads can pass through the large part of the slot in the plate b. In raising and lowering the sashes there is nothing to force the upper or lower horizontal strips endwise. There is therefore no need of any provision against endwise movement in these strips. In the vertical side strips, however, the friction of the sashes, as they move up and down, would probably carry the strips with them the length of the mortisc in the end ofthe adjacent frame-piece. As this would render these strips liable to fall out or be detached uninteutionally when the screw-heads coincido ICO with the head of the slots, I provide a ine-ans to hold these vertical strips against longitudinal movement. A convenient device for this purpose is the spring-catch c, consisting, preferably, of a wire bent into the form shown in Fig. 5, one end passing clear through a slot in the strip and adapted to enter the large part of the key-hole slot in the plate b, and the other end secured to the outer side of the strip by having a short tang driven into the strip and being held down by a staple f. In order to fasten the strip into place, the screwhead is passed through the slot and the strip moved endwise till the shank of the screw passes well into the narrow part of the slot, when the catch e snaps into the opposite end of the slot and the strip is eiectually held against longitudinal movement in either direction. In order to remove the strip, the catch must be withdrawn before the strip can be slid into a position where the screw-heads will pass out. The end of the wire turned back upon itself, as shown in Fig. 5, forms a convenient knob for this purpose.

In the drawings I have shown the partingstrip D as set into a-groove in the bottom piece of the frame. This, however, is not necessary, as it may be seated on the flat top as the inner strip C is set. As before stated, the outer strip may be secured in the same manner as the others; but it is preferably xed. It maybe found unnecessary to make all the inner strips removable; but it is deemed best to do so.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secu re by Letters Patent, 1s-

l. The combination of a window-frame, a sash-holding strip, a headed pin on the under side of the strip, a lnortise in the frame, a plate covering the mortise and having a keyhole slot therein, and an auxiliary catch to hold the strip against endwise movement, substantially as described.

2. In a window-frame, the combination of t-he sash-holding strip, the mort-ise a in the frame, the plate b, covering the mortise, the key-hole slot c in the plate, The headed pin or screw in the under side of the strip, and a spring-catch to hold the pin in the narrow part ot' the slot, substantially as described'.

3. In a window-frame, the combination of the sash-holding strip, the lnortise a in the frame, the plate b, covering the mortise, the key-hole slot c in the plate, the headed pin or screw in the under side of the strip, and the spring-catch secured upon the outer side of the strip and having its end projecting through the strip alongside of the pin, substantially as described.

4. In a window-frame, the combination of the sash-holding strip, the mortise a in the frame, the plate b, covering the mortise, the key-hole slot c in the plate, the headed pin or screw in the under side of the strip, and the spring-catch projecting inward from the strip and having a knob or thumb piece on the outer side, substantially as-described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of tno witnesses.

JOSEPHUS IIOOPER. lVitnesses:

H. H. GoRKn, XV. T. HALE. 

